On behalf of the team, it is my very great pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 3.0 is now generally available and 3.0.0 can be found in Maven Central.

This release is the culmination of 12 months work and over 5700 commits by 151 different individuals. A massive thank you to everyone that has contributed, and to all the early adopters that have been providing vital feedback on the milestones.

This is the first major revision of Spring Boot since 2.0 was released 4.5 years ago. It's also the first GA version of Spring Boot that provides support for Spring Framework 6.0 and GraalVM.

Highlights…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.6 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 44 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.2 is available now.

Spring Framework 6.0.2 includes 4 fixes and documentation improvements.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.6.14 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 39 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

End of life

It's just over a year since the release of Spring Boot 2.6.0 which means that, as per our open source support policy, 2.6.14 is the last release that's planned in the 2.6.x line. Releases may be made in the future, but only in response to a commercial support…

It is finally here! Spring Batch 5.0 is now generally available from Maven Central. Spring Batch 5 is the culmination of two years of work, including dozens of improvements, features, and bug fixes by more than 50 contributors! On Behalf of the team, I would like to thank ALL contributors who had a role in this huge release!

This blog post walks through the major highlights of this new generation of the framework. You can find the details of all the changes in the release notes and the upgrade instructions in the migration guide.

What's new?

• New Java version baseline
• Major dependencies upgrade
• Full GraalVM native support
• Introduction of the new Observation API from Micrometer
• Execution context Meta-data improvement
• New default execution context serialization format
• SystemCommandTasklet enhancements
• Add support to use any type as a job parameter
• Improved job parameters conversion
• New Annotation Attributes in EnableBatchProcessing
• New Configuration Class for Infrastructure Beans
• Transaction Support in JobExplorer and JobOperator
• Automatic registration of a JobOperator with EnableBatchProcessing
• Test utilities configuration updates
• …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.1 is available now.

Spring Framework 6.0.1 includes 21 fixes and improvements.

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I'm pleased to announce that Spring for GraphQL 1.1.0 is now available on Maven Central. This version will ship with Spring Boot 3.0.0 later this week.

Spring for GraphQL 1.0.0 was released 6 months ago, so why a new minor version now? The team initially planned a 1.1.0 release with one goal in mind: support Spring Framework 6.0 / Spring Boot 3.0 and adapt to the new baseline for that generation:

• Java 17
• Jakarta EE 9
• GraphQL Java 19

In addition, we shipped some new and noteworthy features we think you'll like:

Observability

Observability is a major theme across the Spring portfolio in this major new Spring Framework 6 generation. Spring projects now have their own, built-in instrumentation for metrics and traces based on the new Observation API from Micrometer. This new instrumentation in Spring for GraphQL replaces the former GraphQL Metrics support in Spring Boot 2.7. This is important to keep track…

Hi, Spring fans! Spring Boot 3 is here (or will be tomorrow, on the 24th of November, 2022, to be more precise!), bringing a fantastic new Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation engine that supports GraalVM native images. Join me, and we'll dive deep into the engine and its interactions with the Spring component model.

This video is a detailed masterclass on the new AOT engine. It starts by examining the everyday usecases of an application developer and delves deeper and deeper into the engine, treating concerns that library and framework developers will care about.

Enjoy!

Also, Happy thanksgiving…

Hi, Spring fans! It's Tuesday, the 22nd of November, 2022, as I write this, which means we're two days away from Spring Boot 3 and Thanksgiving. Spring Boot 3, I've written about in abundance so I won't rehash that. If you want to learn more about some of the amazing new features in Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3, perhaps check out my Spring Tips installment introducing them in this episode:

And, of course, a major new feature in Spring Boot 3 is the new ahead-of-time (AOT) engine, about which I speak at great length in tomorrow's new installment of Spring Tips:

This video is done so…